Thread: Where to I get new Series Suspension?

Sorry if this is a silly question but the leaves in my IIA are really shot and need replacing for RWC. I tried serching but to no avail - can someone point me in the right direction please.

I'm in Brisbane and primarly looking for stock suspension.

Cheers

Reflections of a journeyman mechanic.

Ahh yes, I took it upon myself to replace the rear leaf springs on my SWB 2a.

Here are my learnings :

1. replace all the nuts and bolts, and shackles, and U bolts, order them all with the leaf springs. Got mine from Paddock Spares in the UK, excellent service, took about a week.
2. If the springs are sagging, the bushes most likely will be two.
3. Removing the bushes from the chassis is the very devils job.
4. It is do-able however- buy yourself a cheap reciprocating saw, with a spare metal cutting blade. Drill the rubber bush out, use the saw to cut the inner sleeve in two places, then belt the pieces out with a string cold chisel. really hard.
5. removing the outer sleeve is one of the hardest things I've ever done. the saw will be needed again . Try to get a clean cut through the sleeve in at least one place. use a new blade. you will probably cut the chassis slightly, cant be helped. adding heat, wd 40, acetone with auto trans fluid blah blah was all useless. i tried it all.
6. at the position of the cut, now belt a slim cold chisel in between the chassis and sleeve. you may need to get it started with a small strong screwdriver, which you can sharpen with an angle grinder.
7. keep belting the cold chisel right through. don't stop. don't try to move to another place. soon the cold chisel will result in the sleeve folding inwards on itself and popping out the other end. use a really big hammer. bang really hard.
8. now you've done this, swear on the skull of your fathers murderer to never EVER use blasted metal/rubber bushes again!! Buy poly bushes of some sort.
9. i got genuine poly bush "dynamics" , simply because they are a UK company and the seemed completely familiar with LR's and produced a specific product. This suggest that they are not simply using "near enough is good enough"
10. fitting them to the chassis was easy. hooray
11. you will need to change the bushes in the new springs, again get the blasted metaplastic ones out. this is easier
12. drill rubber out first. use a drill slightly larger than the width of the rubber.
then blast it good with a propane torch. wear gloves and eye protection. the rubber will burn well, the inner sleeve will now belt out with cold chisel. quite easy. you don't need to cut the inner bush.
13. the outer sleeve again, this time easier. use the reciprocating saw to make a single cut through the sleeve; this time aim towards the gap in loop of the "P" (where the bush is located, look at one and see what i mean) Belt it out again with said cold chisel, at the point of the cut.
14. fit new poly bushes- insert the bushes first, then bang the sleeve through the centre. so its bush bush sleeve, not bush sleeve bush
15. last but not least, do one side at a time. if you take both sides down at once the diff/ axles etc flop all over the place and are much harder to realign and put back together again.

enjoy.